Love is Jesus Christ
We're half-way through The Love Dare. Twenty more days to go? Are noticing a difference yet in your marriage? More importantly, are you noticing a difference yet in yourself and your attitude and behavior towards your spouse?
There's absolutely no way a significant change in the love towards your spouse can take place without recognizing from where that love comes. You can try anything and everything, but efforts made merely by your feeble attempts to do this on your own will fall short.
The same is true in our relationship with God. Nothing we could ever do could earn our way to heaven. "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me" (Psalm 51:5). "All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment" (Isaiah 64:6).
Without Jesus Christ, we will never fully understand or possibly earn the love that we're supposed to have and can have in our marriage. The love we seek can only be received from God Himself and, consequently, shared, with our mate. "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we outght to lay down our lives for our brothers... This is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us" (1 John 3:16, 23). "The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love" (1 John 4:8).
God loves us in spite of our imperfections. He chose us to die for even though we turn away sometimes. In our marriage, we must chose to love even when we're not loved in return. Dare to take God at His Word. Dare to be used as His intrument of love in your marriage.
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